The man at the center of the storm over allegations of illegal surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department said Friday that the memo released by House…<\/b>
\nThe man at the center of the storm over allegations of illegal surveillance by the FBI and Justice Department said Friday that the memo released by House Republicans vindicates him.
The memo alleged that Justice officials acted improperly when they used an unverified dossier prepared by a former British spy to renew a surveillance warrant for Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.
Page, speaking from Britain, told The Post that the memo\u2019s release would help \u201crestore law and order in our great country.\u201d
\u201cThe brave and assiduous oversight by congressional leaders in discovering this unprecedented abuse of process represents a giant, historic leap in the repair of America\u2019s democracy,\u201d Page said.
\u201cNow that a few of the misdeeds against the Trump movement have been partially revealed, I look forward to updating my pending legal action in opposition to DOJ this weekend in preparation for Monday\u2019s next small step on the long, potholed road toward helping to restore law and order in our great country,\u201d he said, referring to a federal lawsuit he filed against the government.
Page has had a lucrative career doing business with Russia and its state-run gas industry and had been on the FBI\u2019s radar since at least 2013 because of meetings he held with Kremlin-connected Russians.
He has not been charged in the special counsel\u2019s probe of Russian meddling in the presidential election.
The memo linked ex-British spy Christopher Steele to senior Justice official Bruce Ohr, whose wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele to prepare the Trump dossier.
Steele, according to the memo, admitted to Ohr that he \u201cwas desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.\u201d
Ohr\u2019s revelations about Steele\u2019s bias \u201c prove sleazeball Steele\u2019s agenda \u201d against Trump, said Page.
\u201cIt\u2019s all rubbish,\u201d Page said of the dossier, \u201cat least every word about me.\u201d
Additional reporting by Bob Fredericks<\/p>\n

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